Abraham Walkowitz (1878 - 1965) was a Russian-American early modernist painter known for abstract figurative works, especially in watercolor. As a youth, Walkowitz�s family emigrated to the United States, and settled in the Jewish ghetto in New York. His drawings of ghetto life were published in local newspapers. His official art training began at the Artists� Institute and the National Academy of Design. Later Walkowitz studied at the Academie Julien in Paris where he was inspired by Cubism and Wassily Kandinsky. Over his lifetime he made thousands of drawings and watercolors of modern dancer Isadora Duncan. Walkowitz belonged to the heart of the New York modern art scene, exhibiting at the 1913 Armory Show and Alfred Stieglitz�s 291 Gallery. He was honored in 1963, three years before his death, by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.